Usually, designing a CPU is a lengthy process, especially so if you’re making a new ISA too. This is something that can take months or even years before you first get code to run. But what if it ...

[c0pperdragon] set himself the task of designing a very capable 8-bit CPU using just 74HC type logic chips on a large plug-in breadboard. To emphasize the “bread” theme, he put the whole thing ...

asynchronous Processor modules/cores. In this paper, power, area performance parameters of 8-bit pipelined asynchronous processor is measured and compared over similar feature synchronous processor.

The complete system with peripherals and the DoCD debugger needs just 6 650 ASIC gates, when a standalone CPU utilizes little else than 3k gates. The DT8051 is an area optimized tiny soft core of a ...

This week at CES 2025, numerous major hardware announcements are being unveiled — but in the long history of CES, these ...

Connected to a control unit, the ALU slices were strung together to make larger processors (8-bit, 16-bit, etc.). They included inputs and outputs for borrow and carry bits (addition and ...